Livestock rearing contribution towards the beneficiary and nonbeneficiary on watershed development programme in Nagaland

The present study to access the assured income and employment through different activities implemented under watershed programme with reference to the beneficiaries and non-beneficiaries for the purposely selected two districts from the Nagaland state viz; Dimapur and Kohima as both were selected purposely due to the maximum number of area covered under watershed in the zone and further two blocks from each district were randomly selected, while in the second stage a multi stage random purposive sampling methods viz; 320 respondents (160 beneficiaries and 160 non-beneficiaries) were selected randomly from identified watershed areas.